Good Livin': A Farm Boy's Diary
New York: Exposition Press, 1952. 1st Edition. 8vo. Very Good / Very Good. Item #17468
An Exceptional piece of early 20th-century South Dakota history with lineage to Dakota Territory's earliest pioneers.
Inscribed by the author on the front end paper - "With all good wishes - Helen Sarchet Davis - May 23, 1952."
Laid into the book is a three-page typed manuscript, which appears to be an introduction to the book never published, from South Dakota author and historian Joseph Mills Hanson, with his signature at the end, dated January 30, 1952.
Hanson (1876-1960) was the son of Black Hills pioneer Joseph Randall Hanson (1836-1917), who migrated to the area in 1856 and during the Civil War was appointed by Abraham Lincoln as Indian Agent over the Lower Brule Agency, which became the Upper Missouri Sioux Agency. Both Hansons were descendants of Maryland Founding Father John Hanson.
Good Livin' recounts the boyhood experiences of the author's husband, Albert Bartlett Davis, growing up after the turn of the last century in rural Ohio farmland country.
Orange cloth. 128pp. Square tight binding. Clean interior. Endpapers lightly tanned. Dust jacket with mild edge wear, including a shallow chip to top edge of rear panel. Presents handsomely in archival mylar.
Overall a wonderful piece of Ohio and Dakota history, unique with two desirable signatures.
Price: $125.00